Masonic Rosicrucianism, Hermetic Theosophy, Blavatsky & Paschal Beverly Randolph Pt 7 [Preview 2]

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🗓️ 3 June 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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This is a preview clip to the Media Roots Radio series by Robbie Martin, The Freemasonic History of the United States Part 7: Masonic Rosicrucianism, Hermetic Theosophy, Blavatsky & Paschal Beverly Randolph. To hear the entire 8 hour episode or the full series become a subscriber @ www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio It is the 1870s, Freemasonry is at the peak of its popularity and has become an old hat, secret society enthusiasts are bored and looking for something more esoteric and magical. Robbie Martin tells an intertwining story about the spiritualism revival in the United States that involves Sex Magician P.B. Randolph and Theosophical Society founders H. Blavatsky & Henry Steel Olcott [ the latter 3 ingested drugs, even hallucinogens to commune with spirits ]. Italian magician Cagliostro makes a comeback, and the rise of new types of mystical esoteric fraternal societies become inevitable, ones that heavily borrow from Rosicrucianism and Eastern Religion. Instead of just becoming appendant bodies of Masonry, the popularity and the mystique of these new Rosicrucian societies [ S.R.I.A. , S.R.I.C.F. , F.R.C. ] and Theosophical groups start to eclipse those of Freemasonry itself. FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon // www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio

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0:00.0	As everyone around her became more aware of young Helena Petrovna's special powers,
0:05.0	Helena herself came to feel that she had a mission.
0:08.0	All at once, there was a moment of clarity, and she saw herself led by mysterious oriental guides. I am as the reflection of an unknown bright light.
0:21.6	However this may be, this light I am as the reflection of an unknown bright light.
0:39.3	However this may be, this light has gradually been incorporated into me, has filtered
0:45.3	into me, it has, as it were, pierced through me.
0:50.3	And therefore I cannot help myself that all these ideas are coming to my brain into the depth of my soul.
0:58.0	I am sincere, although perhaps I may be wrong. A man named William Kwan Judge, who was an occultist, an Irish American, who had already
1:36.3	become friends with Henry Steele, Olcott, and Blavatsky at this time period, that he was with
1:41.2	Blavatsky one evening, and he picked up one of P.B. Randolph's books that an
1:48.0	unnamed friend of O'Codd had brought. So this guy, William Kwan Judge, who's already hanging
1:54.4	out with the two of them at that time. Henry Steele, O'Cott, comes over at Blavatsky's house. William
1:59.7	Kwan Judge is already there hanging out.
2:02.2	And one of Olcott's friends brings a book of Pascal Beverly Randolph's.
2:07.8	William picked the book up and just started reading through it casually.
2:12.5	And here's his recounting of that.
2:15.2	William Judge says,
2:16.2	I was one day about four o'clock reading a book by P.B. Randolph
2:21.5	That had just been brought in by a friend of Colonel Olcott. I was sitting some six feet
2:26.2	distant from H.P. Levatsky, who was busy writing. I'd carefully read the title page of the book,
2:34.0	but had forgotten the exact title,
2:36.5	but I knew that there was not one word of writing upon it. As I began to read the first paragraph,
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